OpenPiton at 5: A Nexus for Open and Agile Hardware Design

Jonathan Balkind; Ting Jung Chang; Paul J. Jackson; Georgios Tziantzioulis; Ang Li; Fei Gao; Alexey Lavrov; Grigory Chirkov; Jinzheng Tu; Mohammad Shahrad; David Wentzlaff

doi:10.1109/MM.2020.2997706

OpenPiton at 5: A Nexus for Open and Agile Hardware Design

Jonathan Balkind, Ting Jung Chang, Paul J. Jackson, Georgios Tziantzioulis, Ang Li, Fei Gao, Alexey Lavrov, Grigory Chirkov, Jinzheng Tu, Mohammad Shahrad, David Wentzlaff

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

10 Scopus citations

Abstract

For five years, OpenPiton has provided hardware designs, build and verification scripts, and other infrastructure to enable efficient, detailed research into manycores and systems-on-chip. It enables open-source hardware development through its open design and support of a plethora of open simulators and CAD tools. OpenPiton was first designed to perform cutting-edge computer architecture research at Princeton University and opening it up to the public has led to thousands of downloads and numerous academic publications spanning many subfields within computing. In this article, we share some of the lessons learned during the development of OpenPiton, provide examples of how OpenPiton has been used to efficiently test novel research ideas, and discuss how OpenPiton has evolved due to its open development and feedback from the open-source community.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	9099948
Pages (from-to)	22-31
Number of pages	10
Journal	IEEE Micro
Volume	40
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MM.2020.2997706
State	Published - Jul 1 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Software
Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Access to Document

10.1109/MM.2020.2997706

Cite this

@article{7c75a02c12fd4e11a0a886f4bafdf98d,

title = "OpenPiton at 5: A Nexus for Open and Agile Hardware Design",

abstract = "For five years, OpenPiton has provided hardware designs, build and verification scripts, and other infrastructure to enable efficient, detailed research into manycores and systems-on-chip. It enables open-source hardware development through its open design and support of a plethora of open simulators and CAD tools. OpenPiton was first designed to perform cutting-edge computer architecture research at Princeton University and opening it up to the public has led to thousands of downloads and numerous academic publications spanning many subfields within computing. In this article, we share some of the lessons learned during the development of OpenPiton, provide examples of how OpenPiton has been used to efficiently test novel research ideas, and discuss how OpenPiton has evolved due to its open development and feedback from the open-source community.",

author = "Jonathan Balkind and Chang, {Ting Jung} and Jackson, {Paul J.} and Georgios Tziantzioulis and Ang Li and Fei Gao and Alexey Lavrov and Grigory Chirkov and Jinzheng Tu and Mohammad Shahrad and David Wentzlaff",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 1981-2012 IEEE.",

year = "2020",

month = jul,

day = "1",

doi = "10.1109/MM.2020.2997706",

language = "English (US)",

volume = "40",

pages = "22--31",

journal = "IEEE Micro",

issn = "0272-1732",

publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",

number = "4",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - OpenPiton at 5

T2 - A Nexus for Open and Agile Hardware Design

AU - Balkind, Jonathan

AU - Chang, Ting Jung

AU - Jackson, Paul J.

AU - Tziantzioulis, Georgios

AU - Li, Ang

AU - Gao, Fei

AU - Lavrov, Alexey

AU - Chirkov, Grigory

AU - Tu, Jinzheng

AU - Shahrad, Mohammad

AU - Wentzlaff, David

PY - 2020/7/1

Y1 - 2020/7/1

N2 - For five years, OpenPiton has provided hardware designs, build and verification scripts, and other infrastructure to enable efficient, detailed research into manycores and systems-on-chip. It enables open-source hardware development through its open design and support of a plethora of open simulators and CAD tools. OpenPiton was first designed to perform cutting-edge computer architecture research at Princeton University and opening it up to the public has led to thousands of downloads and numerous academic publications spanning many subfields within computing. In this article, we share some of the lessons learned during the development of OpenPiton, provide examples of how OpenPiton has been used to efficiently test novel research ideas, and discuss how OpenPiton has evolved due to its open development and feedback from the open-source community.

AB - For five years, OpenPiton has provided hardware designs, build and verification scripts, and other infrastructure to enable efficient, detailed research into manycores and systems-on-chip. It enables open-source hardware development through its open design and support of a plethora of open simulators and CAD tools. OpenPiton was first designed to perform cutting-edge computer architecture research at Princeton University and opening it up to the public has led to thousands of downloads and numerous academic publications spanning many subfields within computing. In this article, we share some of the lessons learned during the development of OpenPiton, provide examples of how OpenPiton has been used to efficiently test novel research ideas, and discuss how OpenPiton has evolved due to its open development and feedback from the open-source community.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085756311&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85085756311&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/MM.2020.2997706

DO - 10.1109/MM.2020.2997706

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85085756311

SN - 0272-1732

VL - 40

SP - 22

EP - 31

JO - IEEE Micro

JF - IEEE Micro

IS - 4

M1 - 9099948

ER -

OpenPiton at 5: A Nexus for Open and Agile Hardware Design

Abstract

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this